For the week ending Jan. 24 unemployment claims were 3,000 higher than last week, coming in at 588,000. This is the highest level since 1967.
The unemployment rate hit 3.6%, an increase of 0.2 percentage point from the prior week's rate of 3.4%.
The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending Jan. 10 were in Michigan (7.3%), Oregon (6.7%), Idaho (6.5%), South Carolina (6%), Pennsylvania (5.8%), Wisconsin (5.7%), Indiana (5.5%), Nevada (5.3%), Montana (5.2%), Puerto Rico (5.2%), and Rhode Island (5.2%).